Sigma Live, among others, warns people to stay inside until … the dust settles. I’d add an extra warning for those who’s driving on the highway – the visibility is really bad in some areas. Slow down, switch your lights on and avoid unnecessary trips. Your lungs and your car will thank you later.

Slashdot lets us know that we finally know where’s the most freezing place on Earth:

What is the coldest place on Earth? It is a high ridge in Antarctica on the East Antarctic Plateau where temperatures in several hollows can dip below minus 133.6 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 92 degrees Celsius) on a clear winter night. Scientists made the discovery while analyzing the most detailed global surface temperature maps to date, developed with data from remote sensing satellites including the new Landsat 8, a joint project of NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Ted Scambos, lead scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., joined a team of researchers reporting the findings Monday at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco. Researchers analyzed 32 years’ worth of data from several satellite instruments. They found temperatures plummeted to record lows dozens of times in clusters of pockets near a high ridge between Dome Argus and Dome Fuji, two summits on the ice sheet known as the East Antarctic Plateau. The new record of minus 93.2 C was set Aug. 10, 2010.

To all those people who keep telling me that I am fat: look at you now, you frozen skinnies! It’s not even below zero, and all you can say is “OMG! It’s so cold!!”. Fat is awesome when it’s cold. Summer, on the other hand, is a completely different story…